2 Corinthians 11:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I say again, Let me not seem foolish to anyone; but if I do, put up with me as such, so that I may take a little glory to myself.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 11:1 : 1 Put up with me if I am a little foolish: but, truly, you do put up with me.
  • 2 Cor 12:6 : 6 For if I had a desire to take credit to myself, it would not be foolish, for I would be saying what is true: but I will not, for fear that I might seem to any man more than he sees me to be, or has word from me that I am.
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I have been forced by you to become foolish, though it was right for my praise to have come from you: for in no way was I less than the chief of the Apostles, though I am nothing.
  • 2 Cor 11:19 : 19 For you put up with the foolish gladly, being wise yourselves.
  • 2 Cor 11:21-23 : 21 I say this by way of shaming ourselves, as if we had been feeble. But if anyone puts himself forward (I am talking like a foolish person), I will do the same. 22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they of Israel? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. 23 Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking foolishly) I am more so; I have had more experience of hard work, of prisons, of blows more than measure, of death.

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  • 2 Cor 11:17-23
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    17 What I am now saying is not by the order of the Lord, but as a foolish person, taking credit to myself, as it seems.

    18 Seeing that there are those who take credit to themselves after the flesh, I will do the same.

    19 For you put up with the foolish gladly, being wise yourselves.

    20 You put up with a man if he makes servants of you, if he makes profit out of you, if he makes you prisoners, if he puts himself in a high place, if he gives you blows on the face.

    21 I say this by way of shaming ourselves, as if we had been feeble. But if anyone puts himself forward (I am talking like a foolish person), I will do the same.

    22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they of Israel? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

    23 Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking foolishly) I am more so; I have had more experience of hard work, of prisons, of blows more than measure, of death.

  • 2 Cor 12:5-6
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    5 On account of such a one I will have glory: for myself I will take no glory, but only in my feeble body.

    6 For if I had a desire to take credit to myself, it would not be foolish, for I would be saying what is true: but I will not, for fear that I might seem to any man more than he sees me to be, or has word from me that I am.

  • 2 Cor 12:11
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    11 I have been forced by you to become foolish, though it was right for my praise to have come from you: for in no way was I less than the chief of the Apostles, though I am nothing.

  • 1 Cor 3:18-19
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    18 Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.

    19 For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God. As it is said in the holy Writings, He who takes the wise in their secret designs:

  • 2 Cor 11:1
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    1 Put up with me if I am a little foolish: but, truly, you do put up with me.

  • 2 Cor 11:10
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    10 As the true word of Christ is in me, I will let no man take from me this my cause of pride in the country of Achaia.

  • 2 Cor 11:5-7
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    5 For in my opinion, I am in no way less than the most important of the Apostles.

    6 But though I am rough in my way of talking, I am not so in knowledge, as we have made clear to all by our acts among you.

    7 Or did I do wrong in making myself low so that you might be lifted up, because I gave you the good news of God without reward?

  • 2 Cor 11:30
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    30 If I have to take credit to myself, I will do so in the things in which I am feeble.

  • 2 Cor 10:7-9
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    7 Give attention to the things which are before you. If any man seems to himself to be Christ's, let him keep in mind that we are as much Christ's as he is.

    8 For though I might take pride in our authority (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for your destruction), it will not be a cause of shame to me:

    9 That I may not seem to have the desire of causing you fear by my letters.

  • 1 Cor 4:10
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    10 We are made to seem foolish for Christ, but you are wise in Christ; we are feeble, but you are strong; you have glory, but we have shame.

  • 2 Cor 10:2
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    2 Yes, I make my request to you, so that when I am with you I may not have to make use of the authority which may be needed against some to whom we seem to be walking after the flesh.

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6 My brothers, it is because of you that I have taken Apollos and myself as examples of these things, so that in us you might see that it is not wise to go farther than what is in the holy Writings, so that no one of you may be lifted up against his brother.

  • 2 Cor 9:3-4
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    3 But I have sent the brothers, so that the good things we said about you may be seen to be true, and that, as I said, you may be ready:

    4 For fear that, if any from Macedonia come with me, and you are not ready, we (not to say, you) might be put to shame in this thing.

  • 2 Cor 5:12
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    12 We are not again requesting your approval, but we are giving you the chance of taking pride in us, so that you may be able to give an answer to those whose glory is in seeming, and not in the heart.

  • 2 Cor 11:12
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    12 But what I do, that I will go on doing, so that I may give no chance to those who are looking for one; so that, in the cause of their pride, they may be seen to be the same as we are.

  • 2 Cor 11:15
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    15 So it is no great thing if his servants make themselves seem to be servants of righteousness; whose end will be the reward of their works.

  • 2 Cor 12:1
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    1 As it is necessary for me to take glory to myself, though it is not a good thing, I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

  • 2 Cor 10:16-17
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    16 So that we may be able to go on and take the good news to countries still farther away than you are, and not take credit for another man's work in making things ready to our hand.

    17 But whoever has a desire for glory, let his glory be in the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 15:11
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    11 If then it is I who am the preacher, or they, this is our word, and to this you have given your faith.

  • Gal 6:3
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    3 For if a man has an idea that he is something when he is nothing, he is tricked by himself.

  • Rom 15:17
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    17 So I have pride in Christ Jesus in the things which are God's.

  • 2 Cor 10:11-12
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    11 Let those who say this keep in mind that, what we are in word by letters when we are away, so will we be in act when we are present.

    12 For we will not make comparison of ourselves with some of those who say good things about themselves: but these, measuring themselves by themselves, and making comparison of themselves with themselves, are not wise.

  • 2 Cor 12:16
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    16 But let it be so, that I was not a trouble to you myself; but (someone may say) being false, I took you with deceit.

  • Prov 26:5
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    5 Give a foolish man a foolish answer, or he will seem wise to himself.

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15 But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect.

  • 1 Cor 11:1
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    1 So take me for your example, even as I take Christ for mine.

  • Gal 4:12
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    12 My desire for you, brothers, is that you may be as I am, because I am as you are. You have done me no wrong;

  • 1 Cor 4:3
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    3 But it is a small thing to me that I am judged by you or by man's judging; I am not even a judge of myself.

  • 2 Cor 7:14
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    14 For I was not put to shame in anything in which I may have made clear to him my pride in you; but as we said nothing to you but what was true, so the good things which I said to Titus about you were seen by him to be true.

  • Phil 3:4
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    4 Even though I myself might have faith in the flesh: if any other man has reason to have faith in the flesh, I have more:

  • 1 Cor 1:25
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    25 Because what seems foolish in God is wiser than men; and what seems feeble in God is stronger than men.

  • Gal 1:10-11
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    10 Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

    11 Because I say to you, my brothers, that the good news of which I was the preacher is not man's.

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    13 For what is there in which you were made less than the other churches, but in the one thing that I was not a trouble to you? Let me have forgiveness for this wrong.

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    2 If to others I am not an Apostle, at least I am one to you: for the fact that you are Christians is the sign that I am an Apostle.